PEAR 1.0 is released!

[December 27, 2002]

As of PHP 4.3.0, PEAR is an officially supported
part of PHP. From this release, the PEAR installer with all its
prerequisites is installed by default on Unix-style systems (Windows
will follow in 4.3.2). It has been a long pregnancy.

Some historical highlights:

1999-11-21 : Malin Bakken was born

1999-11-22 : the first few lines of PEAR code were committed (DB.php)

2000-07-24 : the PEAR and PEAR_Error classes were born

2000-08-01 : first working version of the "pear" command

2001-05-15 : first contributor to base system

2001-12-28 : first package uploaded to the current pear.php.net

2002-05-26 : installer can upgrade itself

2002-06-13 : first version of Gtk installer

2002-07-11 : first version of Web installer

Thanks to all PEAR contributors, and special thanks to those who have
pitching in when I've been too busy with family and work to do any PHP
hacking: